POPE TO CANONIZE POLISH NUN ON SUNDAY

Vatican City, 26 (NE) Pope John Paul II will canonize this Sunday April 30 Blessed Faustina Kowalska. The celebration, expected to gather large groups of Polish pilgrims, will take place the second Sunday of Easter, in which the feast of Divine Mercy is also celebrated, devotion which Blessed Kowalska help began during the 1930's. Blessed Kowalska was born in 1905, and entered in 1925 the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy. Some years afterwards, she saw a vision, encouraging her to promote the devotion to the Divine Mercy. She died in 1938. The rapid healing of a Baltimore priest who suffered a serious heart condition in 1995 was the miracle necessary for Blessed Kowalska's canonization. Father Ronald Pytel, the priest who was healed, will be attending the canonization ceremony on Sunday.

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